Traditional Chinese Medicine/Xi Xin
Xi-Slender
Xin-Spicy or hot in flavor
(Chinese: 细辛)
Asarum, Chinese Wild Ginger [1]
Taste & Temperature:
Channels:
- Hand Tai Yin of Lung (b/c Xin-Spicy?)
- Foot Shao Yin of Kidney
Actions & Indications:
- disperse Wind-Cold (Warm & Spicy)
- Stop headache
- Shao Yin headache (teeth/cold)
- warm the Lung, transform Phlegm
- very good analgesic
- open nasal orifices
Contraindications:
- Qi & Yin deficiency causing excessive sweating
- profuse sweating due to Qi deficiency
- headache due to Blood deficiency
- cough due to Yin deficiency
Caution:
- Yin syndrome
- Blood deficiency
- chronic skin infection
- renal problem
Antagonize:
- Shan Zhu Yu
- Huang Qi
Counteract:
- Hua Shi
Dosage:
- .3-1 qian (1-3 grams)
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Notes
[edit | edit source]- ↑ Shao-Qing Cai, Jie Yu, Xuan Wang, Rui-Qing Wang, Fu-Xiang Ran, Ming-Ying Shang, Jing-Rong Cui, Katsuko Komatsu, Tsuneo Namba. "Cytotoxic activity of some Asarum plants", Fitoterapia, Volume 79, Issue 4, June 2008, Pages 293-297.